![]() On 17 April, the new parade limousines were test driven to ensure readiness for use during the final round of practice run-throughs and on the actual parade day. The first general practice began on 3 April 2019 in the Alabino Training Range with only the ground and mobile columns making their runs, as the separate practice runs for the air flypast column began in the airfield in Kubinka just kilometres away from Red Square. Officially the preparatory period for the parade kicked off on 26–27 March 2019 in the Alabino Training Range in Moscow Oblast, where the parade's more than 17,600 servicemen and women assembled to begin more than a month of practice rehearsals together with more than 190 vehicles from the Armed Forces, National Guard and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and around 3,800 crewmen. Unit practices within Moscow Oblast itself started in early March in the Alabino field and other locations before the full-blown parade practice run-throughs for all the participating units commenced later in the month. Individual unit practices were held in the various military installations for all the participating units in the national and local parades. ![]() Preparatory activities īeginning in January 2019, preparations for the parade were well attended at the unit level. It was the second parade where the flypast segment was cancelled due to bad weather, despite cloud seeding carried out to disperse clouds. For the first time in 5 years, foreign leaders were not expected to participate in the parade as guests of honour despite that, former President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev attended. For the second consecutive year, the 154th Preobrazhensky Independent Commandant's Regiment's 1st Honour Guard Company took part in the exhibition drill segment of the parade, together with a drumline from the Moscow Military Music College, the second time it had been done since the parade of 2007 and a recent tradition which began in the 2001 parade. įor the fourth consecutive year the parade included a composite female cadet-regiment from the Military University of the Ministry of Defence, the Military Logistics Academy and the Military Space Academy and for the first time female honour-guardsmen marched, together with another new participant, the Corps of Cadets of the Moscow Internal Affairs University, representing the men and women of the police of Russia, in addition to yet another new contingent debuting this year, the students of the Moscow Cadet Corps of the Investigative Committee of Russia. It was previously performed at Victory Parades from 1990 to 2000. Nikolai Samokhvalov's Ceremonial Fanfare was sounded for the first time in close to 20 years prior to the speech of President Putin. A specialized version of an Aurus Senat armoured limousine was expected to be introduced during the parade, serving the purpose of carrying the Defence Minister and the parade commander in Red Square, replacing the vehicles used in past parades. 2.1 Timeline for preparatory activities in MoscowĪs in past pre-jubilee parades, the parade serves as a preparatory celebration and a national kick-off to the 75th Diamond Jubilee celebrations of the Allied victory in Eastern Europe over the Axis powers (slated for May 2020), while also honouring the men and women of the Russian Armed Forces who have served in Syria.
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